Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Tel Aviv University's Cheerleader for the Hizbollah

1. While katyushas rain down on Israel, Ran HaCohen from the literaturedepartment at the University of Tel Aviv has been busy celebrating andpromoting the Hizbollah. Think I am kidding? Here is HaCohen singingthe praises of the Hizbollah:http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h081303.html . The web site in question,antiwar.com, is a neo-nazi web site that also promotes the "theory" thatthe Jews were behind the 911 attacks on the US.

Notice the bio on the right of that page,where HaCohen brags of his being on the faculty of Tel Aviv University.This piece was very widely reprinted, such as here -http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles7/HaCohen_Hizbollah.htmand on many other anti-Semitic web sites enjoying the notoreity of anIsraeli celebrating the Hizbollah.

If you are upset that TAU has someone on its faculty promoting theHizbollah, why not tell the heads of TAU how you feel?They can be reached via the information here:Tel Aviv University:

2. A couple of days back, al-Jazeera ran a special on defending Hezbollahand attacking Israel. One of those featured in the special was Haaretzcolumnist Gideon Levy, who defending Hezbollah and attacked Israel.

The two-front war launched against Israel by the Hamas and Hezbollahbranches of the worldwide Islamic fascist movement -- the same folks whobrought us the recent Bombay massacre, to say nothing of 9/11 and theLondon Underground abattoir of last summer -- has shattered many lives,and will undoubtedly destroy many more.

Is there any hope that it will also shatter illusions tenaciously held byaccredited experts on the Arab-Israeli "conflict" (more accurately calledthe Arab -- also Iranian -- war against Israel)?

For nearly 40 years, academic Middle East experts and State Departmentinventors of quixotic "peace plans" have insisted that Israeli occupationof "Arab lands" causes Arab hatred and terror and is the "root cause" ofthe conflict; end the occupation, they have always said, and all will bewell.

How, then, is it that, starting the very day after its withdrawal fromGaza last year and six years after its unilateral retreat from Lebanon,Israel is under attack from both those places?

Would it not be closer to the truth to say that terror is caused far lessby Israeli military occupation than by the removal of that occupation?

Complete removal of Israeli forces and Jewish residents from an areaachieves nothing except to invite greater terror and aggression frompeople who use every meter of land they control not to build their ownstate but to destroy an existing state.

This is why the idea -- promoted by virtually every recent American (andIsraeli) administration -- of two sovereign entities, Jewish and Arab,between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean is dangerous fantasy.

What, except historical amnesia, could have made the experts forget thatit was Arab hatred and aggression that led, in 1967, to occupation, andnot occupation that led to Arab hatred and violence? For 19 years,starting in 1948, the Arabs had full possession of the "West Bank," theirsto do with whatever they chose, and -- as always -- what they chose wasnot an independent Palestinian state but incessant terrorist attacks onIsrael.

Fences afford Israel only temporary and partial protection; they cannotkeep out rockets and missiles, such as have been raining down on Israelitowns in the south of the country ever since Hamas won the election inGaza (a voting result that could have come as a surprise only to theexperts, including Condoleezza Rice). Unless Israel controls both sides ofits borders, it can have no security against invaders bent on raw murder.

Can anything positive emerge from the current carnage? Perhaps. SinceHezbollah has over the years killed hundreds of Americans (most notablythe Marines in Lebanon) without ever paying a price, its destruction byIsrael would constitute a major American victory; the same may be said ofHamas, whose agents of mass murder are already operating in America.

Perhaps the incessant nattering about "the occupation" will finally giveway to a recognition that the real "root cause" of Middle Eastern wars isa genocidal Islamicist culture, which must be uprooted by a processroughly akin to the denazification of Germany after World War II.

Perhaps the Israeli politicians who were so proud of their flight fromLebanon and Gaza will conjure the ghost of Winston Churchill rebukingarch-appeaser Neville Chamberlain: "You were given the choice between warand dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war."

Perhaps -- but maybe this is too much to hope -- even our Middle Eastexperts in this country (who bear a large portion of responsibility forour mental unpreparedness for 9/11) will be subject to liability laws forscholarly malpractice of the sort that have long been in place for medicalmalpractice.

Edward Alexander is emeritus professor of English at the University ofWashington and co-author (with Paul Bogdanor) of "The Jewish Divide OverIsrael: Accusers and Defenders" (Transaction Publishers).

4. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot19jul19%2C0%2C3628616.column?coll=la-opinion-rightrailMax Boot: Let Israel Take Off the GlovesThe true sources of terrorism need to be confronted; Syria would be a goodstart.July 19, 2006